Instructional Books

Improve your billiards game by learning from the best. We carry the best pool and billiards books written by the masters - Phil Capelle, Mike Massey, Robert Byrne, Freddy "The Beard" Bentivegna and more. Whether it's breaking, banking, position play or safety play, we have the training books to take your game to the next level. Don't forget to check out our free billiards training articles too!

Master bank shot artist Freddy Bentivegna teaches the lost art of bank shots in his billiards masterpiece "Banking with the Beard". In this book, you'll start with the basic building blocks of banking: angles, aiming, speed and English. With numerous diagrams and illustrations, you'll work your way through the basics to master shots including 3 rail and "Z" banks.

This rogues gallery of the most infamous pool hustlers includes the likes of Ronnie Allen, Cornbread Red, UJ Puckett, Billy Incardona, Jay Helfert, Buddy Hall and hundreds more. With over 300 photos and almost 400 pages, this book is filled with backgrounds stories and first hand personal experiences from the Golden Age of Hustling (1950-2000).

Are you looking to be a well-rounded player? Better check out “The GosPool of Bank Pool.” In this follow-up to the excellent, “Banking with the Beard”, Freddy "The Beard" Bentivegna delves deeper into bank pool with over 100 pages of new instruction. Clear and concise in language and technique, the book also delivers more colorful stories of the game's personalities with the added bonus of pictures from “back in the day.”

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